An encounter for Bishop's Brook Bridge says ", move to any location or street area in Arkham." Can you move to a location or street area on the Dunwich board? The ruels say to treat Dunwich as if it were Arkham, but this encounter seems pretty specific. If it meant ANY location or street area wouldn't it have said ", may move to any location or street area."?

Yes, all places are considered "In Arkham." You could even move to anywhere in Kingsport (except the Kingsport Head). They probably worded it that way to keep consistent. If they had written, "move to anywhere...in Arkham or Dunwich" then people would ask about the distinction.

What if there's a gate there? Is this disallowed? Some cards that let you go to another location, draw X encounter cards & immediately have one encounter don't really work if there's a gate.

Another side effect is that you get to magically avoid monsters at the destination, since your movement is occuring during Arkham Encounter, not Movement phase, and you do not fight monsters on the board unless it's Movement phase. This is not a big deal, again, unless you're ruling you can go to a location where there is a gate, in which case you get to sneak by the monster for free....

If there is a Gate there you go into it and ignore the monster.

MrsGamura said:

That's how I've always played it as well. But the wording on some of the cards doesn't really support that, in my opinion. There are some that say "Move to X and have an encounter there", with these it's clear as day that you get drawn into the gate and that's that. But some say "Move to X. You must draw two encounter cards and encounter one of them" - I'm not so sure about these.

crimson said:

It's the same thing with those. Even if it says you get to search the location deck for an encounter you'd like to have, you still can't—if there's a gate on a location, you can never have an encounter or use the special ability of the location. You encounter is to enter the gate.